"Wet The Rope is a hardcore band consisting of members of Pitchfork, Amber Inn, Sinker, Exhale and many others. It's members have been actively making music for almost 30 years. ""The Sum of Our Scars"" is their debut album, and while you can hear the influences of the members' previous bands, the anger of this LP may catch you by surprise. This album deals with the consequences of sexual abuse and predatory behavior. It is meant as both a personal and a political statement.
12 tracks of intense emotional pissed political hardcore!!!"

Black Table are a four-piece band from New York that create their own take on experimental metal with a broad range of influences. The two-guitar outfit has been around since 2010 and played numerous shows across the United States including an extensive tour with Downfall of Gaia. With six years of existence under their belt, Black Table are thrilled to unleash their new monster OBELISK. In the whirlwind of chaos and complex rhythms that is OBELISK, atmospheric parts only leave you so much time to recover, before the frantic voice will send shivers through your spine over and over again. After Black Table successfully toured Europe in June, Moment Of Collapse Records (EU) and Silent Pendulum Reocrds (US) are proud to release OBELISK which is the second ever album after the band's 2012 debut Sentinel, in fall this year.

"After arising from the ashes of the post-metal heavyweight Omega Massif in 2014, Cranial are now about to release their first longplayer „Dark Towers, Bright Lights“ that combines 45 minutes of thick and heavy sludge and doom.
When the four members of Omega Massif split up, their musical future was vague but soon Phantom Winter, Blacksmoker and lastly Cranial came to life. For the latter, Omega Massif‘s Michael Melchers (guitar) gathered Julian Weidhaus (bass and vocals), Cornelius Merlin (drums) and Sebastian Kröckel (guitar and vocals) to work on the fi rst material which was later recorded by Tobias Anderko in his Blank Disc Studio. The two songs were mixed and mastered in the Tonmeisterei in Oldenburg and later released as the band‘s first physical release. The „Dead Ends“ EP came out in the end of 2015 via Moment of Collapse Records on CD and tape, while the vinyl version‘s appearance was enhanced with a screenprint on the B-side, a printed innersleeve and an inside out cover with a die-cut logo.
The EP was highly praised by the international press which enabled the band to play the Droneburg-Festival among several other festivals and shows. In the summer of 2016, Cranial then booked the Tonmeisterei for a week to record the EP‘s successor „Dark Towers, Bright Lights“ with Role Wiegener. Similar to the „Dead Ends“ EP the four songs on „Dark Towers / Bright Lights“ are gloomy, heavy and abundant with a threatening atmosphere. When there is a leitmotif on Cranial‘s latest release, then it is a muddy and bloody plow that draws relentlessly through everything that gets in its way! This beast of an album leads the listener through an almost cinematic dramaturgy by stacking soundscape on soundscape. In the face of these sonic monliths, the tension becomes almost unbearable. Only then Cranial crush them to ruins just to repeat the procedure. Again and again with no time for relaxation. With that „Dark Towers / Bright Lights“ is highly recommendable for fans of Neurosis, Isis, Cult of Luna and the likes."

A Thorn A Blight' is the highly anticipated debut release from Dawn Ray'd; having created a mix of melodic, epic and violent black metal, lyrically this EP snaps between being hearthbreakingly sad to unnervingly angry, a tension that even the folk song at the end of the record cannot ease. This is six songs of hatred, sadness and empowerment, that will rattle the nerves, and be an antifascist rallying cry to end nsbm once and for all.

"AUTISM is an instrumental Post-Rock/ Post-metal band from Vilnius, Lithuania.
The band say this about this record:
""This album, sharing the same name as a cinematic genre, is driven by a mood of pessimism and menace. While working on this album, we decided to explore even more disturbing and uncomfortable topics. Alcoholism, drugs, physical and psychological abuse, manipulation…it is all a part of our everyday life. We have used real samples of some actual tragic life events to create a greater emotional impact to the listener and make him aware. This is not a casual album to listen to, but we believe that “Film Noir” will succeed to deliver the message we wanted to communicate."""

Faces of the Moving Year showcases two of the heaviest bands in the goddamn world. Richmond’s bleak screamo phenom Ostraca creates a maddening scene of gloom and doom as dynamic and heavy as human ears can handle. Denton’s Flesh Born contributes five brand new songs chock full of huge riffs, double bass and shredding vocals to makes this potentially the wildest split the universe currently has to offer.

Insane techy, mathy metal/hardcore split from two of the most exciting bands around.This bomb provides a ridiculously intense sonic experience and will definitely hit the spot for all of you demanding chaotic metal/hardcore hybrids.

Latino punk outta Miami in the vein of Eskorbuto, Suicidas, or Tozcos. It hits that sweet spot of a perfect mix of melody and grit, with a bass heavy mix that hits hard, especially when the stomp kicks in. Duelling female/male vocals are all in Spanish and range from proper singing to pure punk filth. Members hail from Merkit and Nunhex.

Bloomington's Closet Burner return with a full length of queer-positive, society bullshit negative hardcore. The sound is rooted in classic fast hardcore riffs, but not afraid to drop a dirge or a powerviolent blast in there. Lyrics are angry, to the point, and no holds barred, representing a refreshing return to actual anger and resistance in hardcore. Members share time in Rat Storm as well.

Michigan once again belches forth another dose of venomous filth. Dakhma plays super heavy and raw black metal inspired punk with swirling riffs, punishing drums with a snare hand that won't quit, and hideous female vocals to top it all off. Occasional dark quiet passages allow you a moment here and there to breathe, but expect intensity in the vein of Cloud Rat gone black metal. No pretension, no act, just pure punk filth. These are screenprinted on inside out unused record covers to minimize resource use.

Crushing sludge from New Zealand, well known from two full lenghts as well splits with Open Tomb, Moloch, Leechfeast. Much in vein of Noothgrush or Dystopia. On th flip side three short outbursts of sheer grindcore brutality from Denmark, like The Kill, Assuck!!!

A band with such distinct character, Killeur Calculateur left quite an impression after releasing their highly-anticipated LP, Book of Flags in 2014. The album has been constantly praised for its solid lyrics, its perfect balance of post-punk and post-hardcore influence, and the overall groovy feel to it. Their uniqueness has garnered them the fans all over the South East Asian region.

Lawine is Nijmegen based band with an interesting twist. Very emotional post hardcore with a touch of Neil Young & Jimi. Remek hail from the Czech Republic and deliver harsh, powerful emo. Gruff vocals complement the chaos as they perfectly blend the swirly emo chaos sound with heavier hardcore.

Leechfeast kick things off with a nine-minute funeral crawl through a hellish slime bog. Ten minutes in, influences as diverse as Whindhand, Electric Wizard, Moss and Cough come together to encase the listener in a completely doomed and sulfurous sarcophagus of feedback. Ten drooping, oozing minutes of slow and rotting descent into complete stoner/doom psychedelic coma. A track that is more a trip than anything else. Absolutely harrowing in its putrid immensity. Meth Drinker steers the heaviness from the psychedelic and intoxicated realm of things that Leechfeast subjugated us to, into the territory of the completely wretched, misanthropic and malignant. Their track titled “Sewer” opens up with an evil and corroded bass drone, before picking up the pace and shoving the listener’s head into a vat of putrid bile with immense pounding force. Standing somewhere between Iron Monkey, Eyehategod, Corrupted, Primitive Man and Buzzoven, these three sonic sociopaths from New Zealand are the authors of some of the most hateful, evil and fucking malignant sludge ever to reach human ear. Nothing of this band’s music shows any will to be refined or showcase any kind of aesthetics. These riffs are just total and utter disgust. Vile, crude and morbid slabs of hate, pounding the listener’s skull into a pulp of suffocating hate.

"if nothing works out at least i do" is the 2nd full-length by these girls and boys from Leipzig, Germany. Imagine a record as sweet as the new oreo cake with a big portion of sweet whipped cream on top - and as sad as you get when it's all eaten up. These 7 songs will remind you of your favorite emo-mixtape. At least they developed their '90s post-punk and screamo-sound further and put some gimmicks on vinyl.

Age of Collapse have crafted a very experimental take on crust; blurring lines and sometimes toppling over into completely different musical realms. Their sound is personified by large, crushing distortion, chaotic tempo changes and haunting, reverb drenched cleans. Fast paced punk inspired riffs meld with harmonizing guitars more traditionally reserved for NWOBHM. Whether it be brutal, passionate or furious, Age of Collapse have carved their own niche and sound into the hardcore genre.

Finally, a sonic eruption of full length brutality from Philadelphia's Backslider. Encapsulating the last 15 years of extreme musical devastation in one album, Backslider has drawn on their influences and expanded their doom-laden attack to unleash a hell storm of massive musical terror. Combining the blasting mayhem of early power violence (think Man Is The Bastard and Crossed Out) with the bludgeoning power doom of Eyehategod, Backslider have laid down a monument to lay waste to the current extreme music scene.

What Of Us is a four piece band featuring members of In First Person, Black Kites, Less Life, Capacities, Au Revoir and Guidelines. What Of Us play a volatile and chaotic style of music that incorporates elements of hardcore, punk, and screamo. Musically, What Of Us can be said to be influenced by bands such as Pg. 99, Ampere, Orchid, and other like-minded bands. On their side of the split, What Of Us offer up eight tracks of volatile and brutal as fuck sounding hardcore, punk, and screamo. Coma Regalia is a five piece band from Indiana who formed in 2010. Coma Regalia play a killer style of music that incorporates elements of hardcore, punk, and screamo within their sound. Musically, Coma Regalia can be loosely compared to bands such as The Saddest Landscape, Capacities, Beau Navire, and Todos Caeran.

Abstracter is a blackened sludge-doom band with crust influences hailing from Oakland CA, founded in 2010 by Robin Kahn and Mattia Alagna with the intent of creating the darkest, bleakest, and most punishing music they could come up with. Influenced by legendary bands like Swans, Amebix, Godflesh, Corrupted, His Hero Is Gone, and Blut Aus Nord. Abstracter has shared a stage with bands like Bell Witch, Mass Grave, Noothgrush, Buried At Sea, Unearthly Trance, Acephalix, Sleep, Graves At Sea and many more, presenting the world with their own brand of apocalyptic, hopeless and darkness-fueled music driven by crushing, grim, and dissonant guitar work, apocalyptic themes and lyrical content, and absolutely blood-freezing and plague-ridden atmospheres. Dark Circles is a three piece band from Montreal, Canada who formed in early 2013. Dark Circles play a dark, metallic, and crust tinged style of hardcore. Musically, Dark Circles can be loosely compared to bands such as Hexis, Svffr, Holy, and other-like minded bands. On their side of the split, Dark Circles offer up four tracks of brutal as fuck sounding blackened/crust tinged modern hardcore.

Deathgrave is a new project from Amber Asylum bassist Fern and Greg Wilkinson, the master sound engineer behind Oakland's Earhammer Studios and bassist in Brainoil (ex-Graves At Sea, ex-Laudanum) who's stepped away form his recent doom dealings to spit out some truly virulent grind. The tone alone will knock you on your ass, and coupled with Augurs' nasty, sludge-encrusted black grind, this split might just be one of 2015's best underground gems.